Senior M365 Engineer & Tech Lead (Hybrid)

Asda; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary company bonus

Company pension up to 7% matched

Company Car allowance of £5,700

15% colleague discount in store and/or

Wellbeing services access (Stream, GP,

Employee assistance helpline

Allies Inclusion Networks

Excellent parental leave policies

Job summary

Asda is recruiting a Lead Engineer for M365 to drive optimization, performance, and adoption of Microsoft 365 across the enterprise. The role sits in Infrastructure Engineering and requires close collaboration with EUC, Compute, Network, and InfoSec teams.

You will be the escalation point for Operations issues, on-call when required, and will lead technical colleagues while ensuring secure, high-quality delivery aligned with business objectives. A hybrid working model is in place.

Qualifications

• Experience leading M365 engineering initiatives in a large organisation.
• Strong knowledge of ITIL practices and ServiceNow tooling.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and vendors.
• Willingness to be on-call/out-of-hours support as required.

Responsibilities

• Identify business requirements from interviews, workshops, and documents; translate to target user goals.
• Collaborate with vendors to ensure product roadmaps and alignment with needs.
• Ensure infrastructure security, stability, and adherence to best practices.
• Conduct regular capacity reviews and plan growth with business stakeholders.
• Provide guidance to junior team members and promote best practices.
• Draft and maintain policies and procedures to meet defined principles and external requirements.

Skills

M365 expertise

Team leadership

Security & governance

Capacity planning

Vendor management

Tools

ServiceNow

ITIL framework

Job description

Asda is recruiting a Lead Engineer for M365 to drive optimization, performance, and adoption of Microsoft 365 across the enterprise. The role sits in Infrastructure Engineering and requires close collaboration with EUC, Compute, Network, and InfoSec teams.

You will be the escalation point for Operations issues, on-call when required, and will lead technical colleagues while ensuring secure, high-quality delivery aligned with business objectives. A hybrid working model is in place.